#explanations

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation. ↗

— David Kay

#agenda #another #commonly #conclusions #deeply

Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred Hellian.] 'With what?' [Banaschar] sneered. 'Explanations?' 'No. Answers. There's a difference-' 'Really? How? What difference?' 'Explanations are what people use when they need to lie. Y'can always tell those,'cause those don't explain nothing and then they look at you like they just cleared things up when really they did the opposite and they know it and you know it and they know you know and you know they know that you know and they know you and you know them and maybe you go out for a pitcher later but who picks up the tab? That's what I want to know.' 'Right, and answers?' 'Answers is what I get when I ask questions. Answers is when you got no choice. I ask, you tell. I ask again, you tell some more. Then I break your fingers, 'cause I don't like what you're telling me, because those answers don't explain nothing! ↗

— Steven Erikson

#banaschar #drunk #explanations #funny #hellian

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#explanations #patience #storytelling #storytelling

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations. ↗

— Todd Bridges

#deserve #explanations #need

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#cells #changes #concentrating #developmental #differentiation

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo") ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#explanation #explanations #experience

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#problems

Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#explanations #friends #enemy

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. ↗

— Michael Behe

#decide #explanations #game #permitted #rules

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important